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xfce4 terminal shut down unexpectedly

I'm not sure if I could have hit some key combo accidentally to do this, but I don't know one that would do this, although that isn't to say it doesn't exist. I had about 6 tabs open, 3 with open files in nano, then as I was editing one of them the entire terminal and all it's tabs vanished. Luckily when I started another terminal there was a filename.save and identical filename.save.1 of the file I was editing (although I only had that file open in one terminal window with nano) so nothing was lost. Trying Shift Ctrl Q or Alt F4 brings up a dialogue when a process is running or multiple tabs are open.

Re: xfce4 terminal shut down unexpectedly

Reply #1 –
Not sure how artix related , if you think, that's a bug, please report in upstream (xfce bugzilla).

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Reply #2 –
Unless it happens more often or others find it too then I'm not sure what it is, or if it was nano or the terminal or what. It could be a cosmic ray or random HW related bitflip. There was nothing in syslog or Xorg.log, I was looking at a maximised terminal window then it was an empty desktop. So I was only mentioning it in case anyone else encountered it, it's not easily reproducible as I often use the terminal in the same way including today, and it hasn't crashed before or since.
One other  possibility is that I opened the terminal, then ran an update:
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[2020-08-19T01:45:11+0100] [ALPM] upgraded iana-etc (20200720-1 -> 20200812-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:12+0100] [ALPM] upgraded apache (2.4.43-2 -> 2.4.46-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:12+0100] [ALPM] upgraded fuse-common (3.9.2-1 -> 3.9.3-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:12+0100] [ALPM] upgraded fuse3 (3.9.2-1 -> 3.9.3-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:13+0100] [ALPM] upgraded kbd (2.2.0-5 -> 2.3.0-2)
[2020-08-19T01:45:13+0100] [ALPM] upgraded mpg123 (1.26.3-1 -> 1.26.3-2)
[2020-08-19T01:45:13+0100] [ALPM] upgraded perl-libwww (6.46-1 -> 6.47-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:13+0100] [ALPM] upgraded thin-provisioning-tools (0.8.5-3 -> 0.9.0-1)
[2020-08-19T01:45:13+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xfsprogs (5.6.0-2 -> 5.7.0-1)
And then I continued without rebooting or restarting the terminal - so perhaps something there replaced something that the original terminal / nano process was expecting to find.

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Reply #3 –
Try change gtk2/3 theme, try  use more "standard" theme like adwaita only. You can open xfce-terminal in another terminal so see what comes for output.

Re: xfce4 terminal shut down unexpectedly

Reply #4 –
Thank you for the ideas, I was already using Adwaita and the window manage theme is set to default. Nothing similar has happened today so it's probably nothing to worry about, but I think it's useful to mention unusual things in case they are relevant.